Enamel thickness in Bornean and Sumatran orangutan dentitions

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 417-426

  Smith, Tanya M ^a,b   Kupczik, Kornelius ^b,c   MacHanda, Zarin ^a   Skinner, Matthew M ^b   Zermeno, John P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

average enamel thickness; dental morphology; dietary ecology; primate evolution; relative enamel thickness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTITION; ENAMEL; ENAMEL THICKNESS; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BORNEO; DENTAL ENAMEL; DENTITION; DIET; FEMALE; INDONESIA; MALE; PONGO ABELII; PONGO PYGMAEUS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOOTH;

EID: 84857219705     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22009     Document Type: Article

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